Numbers 67-70 are particularly pithy, encapsulating the ups and down of dealing with people.

I reckon that most of all you need 92 – the passion – to see you through this.

I created a computer forum about computers, hardwares, softwares and programming. I graduated from an universities’ Software Engineering department so i have a lot of friends who are working on these subjects. Also, i have free advertising opportunity and when we published an gif ad, linking to a topic that i wrote, it takes 5000 clicks in 2days. But nobody replies or even becomes member.

I created a facebook group like you. in 3days, i have nearly 300members. But without speaking eachone personally, nobody becomes member to my forum, although most of them are my friends. First, i waited like you and make 10 of my friends member and want them to open some subjects. But most of them didn’t.

I builded up my forum and all its categories 2months ago. I created topics, give some information about some subjects and at the end, ask them questions. But although i have been trying to make everyone member to my forum in last 10days (when i decide to open my forum to public) i can only make 25 members more. Also, most of them haven’t sent a post yet.

So in conclusion, when you decide, your forum is ready to open to public, nobody rush on your forum like you expected. I am always ready to reply to questions and waiting to solve people’s problems but when nobody is asking questions, it makes no sense My suggestion is Don’t wait any more, Try to make everyone heard about your forum. They will become members slowly and starts to write more slowly Without members, although you try to add content everyday, it is never enough. The important thing is having members that likes to add contents.

I created 50 informative topics and in the end of my message, always asked related questions to make people reply. I have 50 members and total topic count is 100 I think, this can show how long does it take and why you should start a.s.a.p

Don’t open the forum up to the masses until you have a good amount of content and strong relationships are already in place.

Just curious…you say that you should bring on new members slowly. I let my facebook group members know about the forum a couple of weeks ago, but haven’t linked the forum to my website yet. How long should I wait to let my web visitors in on it? Not sure how active it needs to be first?

I am developing my first forum now and I I think these points will be very helpfull for me while i am deciding what to do and facing with problems.

#80. Do not edit or delete negative comments about your brand. Respond to them openly.

I think, this one is very important. In many communities, mostly in arguements, i saw that all the replies under a post can become unclear or people can misjudge because author of the first post deleted or edited his/her post after a long list of replies.

In my opinion, if you wrote something, you should stand behind your ideas and your post. You shouldn’t edit it because of the negative replies or if you see some mistake. If you want to edit something or change your idea, you should have the courage to say that you made a mistake and you can send another post saying; “edit: in my first post…”.

Because of these reasons, i will disable editing and deleting posts ability. Maybe, many of people will complain about it but i think, this is the way that it should be. Also, i think, deleting the posts can cause broken links which will damage your search engine ranking.